English Writers. V.1, Pts. 1-2; 2, Pt.1
Author | : Henry Morley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Henry Morley |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Henry Morley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : John W. M. Bannerman |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907909370 |
John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the 'kin-based society', with special emphasis upon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland. This collection opens with Bannerman's ground-breaking and hugely influential edition and discussion of Senchus fer nAlban ('The History of the Men of Scotland'), which featured in his Studies in the History of Dalriada (1974), now long out of print. To this have been added all of his published essays, plus an essay-length study of the Lordship of the Isles which first featured as an appendix in Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands (1977). The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the Gaelic dimension to Scotland's past and present.
Author | : Keith Sanger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317300904 |
This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published. It sets out to trace the development of the instrument from its earliest appearance on the Pictish stones of the 8th century, to the present day. Describing the different harps played in the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, the authors examine the literary and physical evidence for their use within the Royal Courts and "big houses" by professional harpers and aristocratic amateurs. They vividly follow the decline of the wire-strung clarsach from its links with the hereditary bards of the Highland chieftains to its disappearance in the 18th century, and the subsequent attempts at the revival of the small harp during the 19th and 20th centuries. The music played on the harp, and its links with the great families of Scotland are described. The authors present, in this book, material which has never before been brought to light, from unpublished documents, family papers and original manuscripts. They also make suggestions, based on their research, about the development and dissemination of the early Celtic harps and their music. This book, therefore, should be of great interest, not only to harp players but to historians, to all musicians in the fields of traditional and early music, and to any reader who recognises the importance of these beautiful instruments, and their music, throughout a thousand years of Scottish culture.
Author | : Frank Karslake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Autographs |
ISBN | : |
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Author | : William John Watson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Blackwood 1926. |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Celtic languages |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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Author | : R. Andrew McDonald |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788854128 |
This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of the Isles (c. 1336). Drawing on a variety of sources, this very readable narrative deals with three major and closely interrelated themes: first, the existence of the Isles and coastal mainland as a kingdom from c.1100 to 1266; second, the rulers of the region, Somerled and his descendants, the MacDougalls, MacDonalds and MacRuaris; and third, the often complex relations among the Isles, Scotland, Norway and England. A fully rounded history emerges, which transcends national viewpoints. While political history predominates, the changing nature of society in the isles is emphasised throughout, and separate chapters address the church and monasticism as well as the monuments – the castles, monasteries, churches and chapels that form an enduring legacy.
Author | : Stephen Boardman |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788854039 |
If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear, envy and respect. The spectacular advance of Campbell power in the medieval Scottish kingdom has normally been explained in terms of the family's ruthless and duplicitous suppression of their fellow-Gaels in Argyll and the Hebrides at the behest of the Scottish crown. In particular, Clan Campbell's success is seen to be built on the destruction of older and more prestigious regional lordships in the west, such as those of the MacDougall lords of Argyll and the MacDonald lords of the Isles. This book reassesses these negative images and interpretations of the growth of Campbell authority from the thirteenth century and the opening of the Wars of Independence through to the death of Archibald, 2nd earl of Argyll, at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The lords who dominated the medieval Clan Campbell emerge more as individuals enjoying complex and ambiguous relationships with the Scottish crown and the culture and politics of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, rather than as unquestioning agents of the Stewart monarchy and committed converts to the aristocratic culture of lowland Scotland.
Author | : James B. Johnston |
Publisher | : Irish Roots Cafe |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780940134713 |
Scottish names that begin with 'Mac' or 'Mc', their origin and derivation. Many of these names exist today without the Mac or Mc prefix.